A whole lot of nitpicking and nostalgia goggles ITT so far.
Whats wrong with new Laura and Chris Redfield?
Here, I got one:
http://www.gogaminggiant.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/cole_face.jpg[img]
Why the developers went with this bland looking motherfucker instead of this guy who actually has some personality in his design.
[img]http://www.gameinformer.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Components-ImageFileViewer/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles-00-00-00-84-17/3872.610.jpg_2D00_610x0.jpg[img][/QUOTE]

Because the second one looks like a boyband member and why the fuck would you want to play as a Backstreet Boys reject in inFamous 2? Terrible redesign, glad they ditched it.

to be fair RE5 Chris seems to be a more natural extension of RE1 Chris. Just buffer and capable of typing. I'll take a lovable lunk head over the doubtful leader they made him into in the REmake any day.

Capcom did fine with Jill until RE5. I liked RE3 Jill's personality and voice quite a bit. She has been crap from RE5 on though.

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A whole lot of nitpicking and nostalgia goggles ITT so far.
Whats wrong with new Laura and Chris Redfield?
Here, I got one:

Why the developers went with this bland looking motherfucker instead of this guy who actually has some personality in his design.
http://www.gameinformer.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Components-ImageFileViewer/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles-00-00-00-84-17/3872.610.jpg_2D00_610x0.jpg[/img[/QUOTE]

there's another design of cole that i remember on the front cover of gameinformer.

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Junior Member

Cole from Infamous is a pretty good one. The proposed redesign was really good, but man the gaming community is really stupidly awful with their outrage sometimes. Still can't believe Sucker Punch caved and kept Cole as generic and unlikeable as possible, they should've stuck to their chops.

Banned

The really weird thing about this one to me is that they did BC: Rearmed to tie into the new game but rather than keeping the direction they were going for with BC09 in mind they just totally ramped up the 80s silliness.

Weeping Pickle

Cole from Infamous is a pretty good one. The proposed redesign was really good, but man the gaming community is really stupidly awful with their outrage sometimes. Still can't believe Sucker Punch caved and kept Cole as generic and unlikeable as possible, they should've stuck to their chops.

Banned

The Unreal tournament characters started doing bullshark testosterone in 2003
Chris Redfield from resident evil also apparently got hold of some from Epics stash
Sonic went from a weird mute hedgehog to some kind of terrible 80s "cool" stereotype

Lara Croft somehow stayed mostly consistent until the new reboot where she looks kind of like Justin Beiber

Banned

I like AC Cloud. Theres nothing wrong with his design. Its his characterization in the movie that sucks.
As a matter of fact if they gave cloud his original uniform in such ultra detail it would have looked so fucking stupid.

Banned

Honestly the original design was also one of the worst in any popular franchise, problem is this is basically just as awful +- 10%

Only redesign that ever bothered me was AC-R.

Just confusing since it's not a reboot and they all look completely different. If they had released a trailer just showing the faces I wouldn't have been able to guess what game it was for....also would be weirdest trailer ever.